.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 313 128
Rank change year-on-year +77 -185 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 694 391 1,970
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.82% 0.98% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.81% 5.01% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 666 327 1,817
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,888 7,806 18,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 19.47% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,789 5,269 14,726
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,978 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +78 161 £55,000 +10.00% 43
North of England +10 155 £55,000 -8.33% 46
Midlands +40 100 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East of England +62 99 £62,500 +13.64% 20
London -76 95 £85,000 +4.62% 53
South West -12 80 £52,500 - 12
North West +10 77 £55,000 -8.33% 24
North East +2 54 £65,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands +14 51 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands +10 49 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire -50 24 £55,000 -8.33% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.44%) IIS
3 6 (0.86%) CMS
4 3 (0.43%) Confluence
4 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.29%) DNN
5 2 (0.29%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.29%) Immediacy CMS
5 2 (0.29%) Kentico
5 2 (0.29%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Magento
1 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 530 (76.37%) Azure
2 167 (24.06%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (15.85%) AWS
4 109 (15.71%) GitHub
5 102 (14.70%) Azure AI
6 96 (13.83%) GitHub Copilot
7 52 (7.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 52 (7.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 45 (6.48%) SaaS
9 42 (6.05%) Power Platform
10 36 (5.19%) Serverless
11 27 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (3.75%) Power Automate
12 26 (3.75%) PowerApps
13 24 (3.46%) Azure Functions
14 22 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.62%) Internet
2 8 (1.15%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (49.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 276 (39.77%) MongoDB
3 149 (21.47%) SQL Server
4 108 (15.56%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (5.04%) Power BI
6 13 (1.87%) MySQL
6 13 (1.87%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.15%) Redis
8 7 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
8 7 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.72%) GIS
11 3 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 34 (4.90%) Git
2 11 (1.59%) JIRA
3 7 (1.01%) GitLab
4 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.43%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.43%) MSI
6 3 (0.43%) NUnit
6 3 (0.43%) Vite
7 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.29%) Postman
7 2 (0.29%) webpack
8 1 (0.14%) MSTest
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (14.27%) Finance
2 51 (7.35%) Social Skills
3 41 (5.91%) Advertising
4 37 (5.33%) Games
5 28 (4.03%) Marketing
6 25 (3.60%) Retail
7 19 (2.74%) Banking
8 12 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.44%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.30%) Automotive
10 9 (1.30%) Law
11 8 (1.15%) Front Office
12 7 (1.01%) Legal
12 7 (1.01%) Music Industry
13 6 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.86%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.58%) Back Office
15 4 (0.58%) Electronics
15 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 566 (81.56%) Developer
2 421 (60.66%) .NET Developer
3 110 (15.85%) Senior
4 100 (14.41%) Software Developer
5 65 (9.37%) C# Developer
5 65 (9.37%) Senior Developer
6 55 (7.93%) C# .NET Developer
7 52 (7.49%) Lead
8 47 (6.77%) Software Engineer
9 45 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (4.76%) Lead Developer
11 29 (4.18%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (3.75%) .NET Software Developer
12 26 (3.75%) .NET Software Engineer
13 23 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 21 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (2.74%) Azure Developer
15 19 (2.74%) C# Software Developer
16 17 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 694 (100.00%) .NET
2 398 (57.35%) ASP.NET
3 334 (48.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 176 (25.36%) HTML
5 173 (24.93%) CSS
6 172 (24.78%) React
7 171 (24.64%) Entity Framework
8 160 (23.05%) Blazor
9 144 (20.75%) RESTful
10 140 (20.17%) Vue
11 138 (19.88%) AngularJS
12 134 (19.31%) ASP.NET Web API
13 122 (17.58%) .NET Framework
14 121 (17.44%) Node.js
15 102 (14.70%) ML.NET
16 81 (11.67%) LINQ
17 58 (8.36%) REST
18 41 (5.91%) JSON
19 25 (3.60%) WPF
20 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.94%) Greenfield Project
2 42 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.45%) Digital TV
5 15 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.02%) iPhone
6 14 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.87%) Hedge funds
7 13 (1.87%) Social Network
7 13 (1.87%) Sports Betting
8 12 (1.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.15%) BBC
10 8 (1.15%) Social Media
11 7 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.86%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.02%) Android
2 13 (1.87%) Windows
3 12 (1.73%) VMS
4 3 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (61.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 328 (47.26%) Agile
3 219 (31.56%) CI/CD
4 202 (29.11%) DevOps
5 160 (23.05%) Microservices
6 131 (18.88%) AI
7 122 (17.58%) Machine Learning
8 115 (16.57%) Multithreading
9 97 (13.98%) Software Engineering
10 73 (10.52%) OO
11 63 (9.08%) Scrum
11 63 (9.08%) TDD
12 60 (8.65%) SDLC
13 53 (7.64%) Analytics
13 53 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (7.35%) User Experience
15 47 (6.77%) BDD
15 47 (6.77%) Containerisation
16 45 (6.48%) MVC
17 44 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 649 (93.52%) C#
2 442 (63.69%) SQL
3 208 (29.97%) JavaScript
4 177 (25.50%) TypeScript
5 37 (5.33%) PowerShell
6 20 (2.88%) Python
7 13 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (1.01%) Bicep
10 5 (0.72%) Java
11 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.43%) Bash
12 3 (0.43%) PHP
12 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.14%) C++
13 1 (0.14%) Delphi
13 1 (0.14%) F#
13 1 (0.14%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 41 (5.91%) Degree
2 19 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.01%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.86%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.58%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.75%) QA
2 16 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.58%) WCAG
4 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.43%) NCSC
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
5 2 (0.29%) ITGC
5 2 (0.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 161 (23.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 152 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.88%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 415 (59.80%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.48%) Facebook
3 32 (4.61%) Google
4 19 (2.74%) Adobe
5 16 (2.31%) YouTube
6 8 (1.15%) Apple
6 8 (1.15%) Sony
6 8 (1.15%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.58%) Workday
9 3 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.43%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.43%) Splunk
10 2 (0.29%) Alterian
10 2 (0.29%) Foundry
10 2 (0.29%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle
10 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.14%) Reuters
11 1 (0.14%) WooCommerce